And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus
Law / MosesDeliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahGo up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Genesis
LawAnd they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
WisdomThen said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
Luke
GospelsHezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahGo not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs
WisdomJesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
John
Gospels / JohnWherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Genesis
LawAnd above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.